On November 29, 2011, the Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign (MN BBC), along with 26 other co-plaintiffs, including Palestinian residents of the besieged village of Bil’in in the Occupied West Bank and Jewish-Israeli members of the Israeli human rights group Boycott From Within, served a lawsuit against the Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) demanding that it cancel its Israel Bonds investments. The suit was filed in court on December 15, 2011, after the plaintiffs gave the SBI an opportunity to resolve MN BBC’s divestment demand without the necessity of court action. The lawsuit claims that the Board’s investments in Israel Bonds are unlawful according to Minnesota and international law. For more information on the lawsuit, visit the MN BBC vs. SBI Lawsuit Archive.

Lawsuit Documents in chronological order (click individually for PDFs):

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Introducing the Campaign

We are Palestinians, Jews, Christians, Muslims, students, professionals, parents, community members and allies working together to bring Palestine-centric education to Minnesota in order to promote justice and human rights.

We believe:

We, the people of Minnesota, have the moral obligation to make sound investments that will not aid the oppression of any one race, creed or people. Minnesota’s investment in Israel supports an apartheid system in both Israel and the Occupied Territories that causes thousands of civilian deaths, many of whom are children, and which involves the widespread abuse of human rights. This system defies a ruling by the International Court of Justice as well as more than 65 UN Resolutions, and violates the Fourth Geneva Convention. We demand that the state of Minnesota act on its good conscience and support the breaking of economic ties with the apartheid state of Israel.

We say, Minnesota divest from Israel Bonds, Divest for Justice in Palestine!